Device for projecting and reproducing films



Nov. 24, 1931 BROSSE v 1,833,634

DEVICE FOR PROJECTINC: AND REPRODUCING FILMS Filed Dec. 11, 1928 fl' INVENTOR ATTORN Y5.

Patented Nov. 24, .1931

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE PAUL BBOSSE, F NEUILLY, FRANCE, ASSIGNOR, BY ASSIGNMENTS, TO KISLYN CORPORATION, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE DEVICE FOR PROJECTING AND REPRODUCING FILMS Application filed December 11, 1928, Serial No. 325,360, and in France December 31, 1927.

The present invention relates to an arrangement for reproducing colored pictures on lenticu'lar films by projection-printing on sensitive. lenticular film material with the elimnation of color stripes.

The arrangement according to the present invention consists in interposing between the objective and the sensitive lenticular film a difi'raction system such as a screen having alternate opaque and transparent bands, and in displacing the diffraction system parallel to itself until the image of the network of the original film disappears on the plane of the sensitive film. I

The simplest among the difiraction systems which may be used is a diffraction grating or screen having alternate opaque and transparent narrow bands, but any other convenient difi'raction device may be employed. A screen having alternate opaque and transparent bands. however. has the advantage that diffraction is produced perpendicularly to the bands of the screen only, and that, therefore, the sharpness of the image is not affected in a direction parallel to the said bands.

Figure 1 ofthe accompanying drawings illustrates diagrammatically in plan. a suitable arrangement of the diffraction device in a reproducing apparatus; and

Fig. 2 is a vertical elevation of the diffraction screen C of Fig. 1.

It will be seen that this screen or grating C is arranged at right angles to the optical axisof the system and so that the diffraction lines are parallel to the linear lenticular elements of the film A to be copied and of the black film D. B is the usual objective.

The distance of the screen C from the films A and D depends on the width of the difradioid of the cornu arcs. However, it is sufficient to take any commercial screen and merely displace it parallel to itself along the optical axis of the projection system until the image of the network of the original film gisappears in the plane of the reproduction I claim as my invention A method of reproducing colored pictures on lent-icular films by prO ection-printing on 40 fracting elements. but it must be so arranged that the image of the lines of intersection of the lenticular elements of the film A are suitably efiaced from the film D. This distance can be determined mathematically by the use of Fresnel integrals, or graphically by the 

